Today I received eight red-tailed rubberlips from Pleco Paradise LLC, https://www.facebook.com/PlecoParadiseLLC. According to the exporter, they were collected near Huánuco, in a tributary of the Huallaga. In color pattern (and close to locality, about 60 miles away), they appear to be .
They're going into a 40 gal breeder half filled with water, covered with large cobble stones and a strong side-blasting pond pump (creating a toilet bowl flush effect) at 70-75F. Bright light to grow algae on stones. They look healthy and their stomachs are not hollow, so they've already been eating in captivity.
I see in the original DATZ article (here) the first specimens were exported under the trade name "Chaetostoma Tingo Red." I like that. The article states that Tingo could refer to the Rio Tingo or to Tingo Maria, which sits along the Huallaga. (I don't read German, so it took me a few hours working with the original scan and with Google Translate to read the whole story).
These are my first new plecos since last April, so I hope they do well.
Cheers, Eric
P.S., As many of you know, I have not had the best luck in the past with rubberlips. So hopefully I'm not reporting next week that they've all died.
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